On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Vincent Fourmond <fourm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hello
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>>
>>> This raises a problem which I've hit quite a few times already: it is
>>> a currently pain to find which java package holds which java classes.
>>> It would be quite great to have the equivalent of apt-file for java
>>> classes ;-)... (and that shouldn't be too difficult to write, actually
>>> - I just do not currently have the time).
>>
>> This should do it.
>
>  Sure, but that only works for installed packages, whereas its
> utility would be much greater if it was based on some index of the
> jars available in the Debian archive... (for the record, apt-file is a
> utility that tells you which packages are installing a named file).

Thierry Carrez wrote a utility like that sometime back. More details
at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaTeam/JavaContents


Onkar


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